Fixed gear commuters -- why?
10-30-05, 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by killsurfcity
trying a fixed gear is like learning the "hop-slide" in mario-kart 1 for super nintendo... i changes the game completely!
10-30-05, 02:05 PM
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I want to play this game real bad now. I haven't wasted enough of my life playing it already.
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who? what? where?
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10-30-05, 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Mehow
the "fixed" quotes in this thread are amazing 
Okay, I feel a little weird asking this . . . but is there anyone in Los Angeles/ Orange County that would be kind enough as to allow Me to *test* ride their fixed bike? (Preferably in a frame my size ~60; I'm 6'2.5")
Thanks
Okay, I feel a little weird asking this . . . but is there anyone in Los Angeles/ Orange County that would be kind enough as to allow Me to *test* ride their fixed bike? (Preferably in a frame my size ~60; I'm 6'2.5")
Thanks
10-30-05, 06:36 PM
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Originally Posted by operator
Because for commuting you're logging 12983891882345389475345kms, and no ders/shifters mean less to go wrong/repair/clean.
Every time it starts to rain I convert it back to freewheeling 27 speed and re-install the brakes and carbon levers and stuff. But then I decide it's too nice a bike to get wet and I take my Expedition to work.
Then I get home from work and check this forum and I'm all like "oooh, fixed gear is so cool" and I take all the shifters off again and relace my rims to the track hub.
But by that time it's dark outside and, really, who'd ride a fixed gear bike in the dark? It's dangerous. So I climb into my spandex skinsuit and check out the weather on the 10:00 news. And if it looks like it's gonna rain I grab the hex wrenches and start converting back to geared, just to be safe.
10-30-05, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Griffin
what does 165 means anyway?
Don't sweat the irony, we haven't taken our medication today.
People like to commute on fixies.
People like to jump out of planes.
People like to vote for Bush.
People do what they like to do, huh?
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10-30-05, 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by operator
Because for commuting you're logging 12983891882345389475345kms, and no ders/shifters mean less to go wrong/repair/clean.
Oh, stop it! I kid! I kid the Canadian!
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10-30-05, 06:57 PM
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Originally Posted by jasonyates
Yes. It's simply that riding fixed gear is fun, and once you get used to it you find that you don't want to go back. It's something hard to explain but easily experienced. It's kind of like trying to explain sex -- saying it feels good or whatever doesn't really get the point across, it's something you have to do to understand. Difference with fixed gear and sex is that you might decide you just don't like fixed gear, you have to at least have an open mind and give it a chance though (or I guess you don't, but if you want to give it a try don't just be thinking about how you think it is weird or whatever the whole time).
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Two reasons:
1) Coasting makes you grumpy
2) and in honor of our old forum friend Torrin, "it makes you a better lover"
Torrin, if you're out there, hope all is well. The forums' thoughts are with you, and as WK's sig line reminds, we haven't forgotten ya.
1) Coasting makes you grumpy
2) and in honor of our old forum friend Torrin, "it makes you a better lover"
Torrin, if you're out there, hope all is well. The forums' thoughts are with you, and as WK's sig line reminds, we haven't forgotten ya.
10-30-05, 07:24 PM
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For simplicity: both for the brain and the bike.
For strength. I was ripping people's legs off in races this year, after commuting fixed most days, about 30 miles.
For strength. I was ripping people's legs off in races this year, after commuting fixed most days, about 30 miles.
10-30-05, 07:44 PM
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Fixed-geared bikes are so silent...the spin is so smooth...and the control is just divine.
10-30-05, 07:51 PM
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The real fun is kicking roadie butt on the climbs
and passing them as they struggle up on a triple.
and passing them as they struggle up on a triple.
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Originally Posted by spike lateen
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your momz is so dum, she freaked out when she locked her keys in the car cause it was about to rain and the top was down.
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Originally Posted by killsurfcity
trying a fixed gear is like learning the "hop-slide" in mario-kart 1 for super nintendo... i changes the game completely!
best quote by far.
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I'm building up my winter commuting bike as a fixed because I'll have more control over it than if I was riding a road bike.
And because I have a strange obsession with using my dremel tool to cut parts of my bike. To remove the kickstand or not, that's the question?
And because I have a strange obsession with using my dremel tool to cut parts of my bike. To remove the kickstand or not, that's the question?
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Originally Posted by jamey
brilliant
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